In America there are no poor people. Your so called "poor" drive cars, have a decent place to live, have TV, stereos, telephones, are well fed (ironically obesity is the problem of the American "poor"), free education, have clothes to wear, clean water, electricity and they dont work much to get all of that. The unemployment and welfare pay you can get here is considrered a high salary in most of the rest of the world.
Poor is an absolute measurement, that is when you are malnurished, no clothes, nowhere to live and work hard to even feed your family.
Relax all of you, you are just fine and are rich if you go anywhere else in the world.